<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Further to the thread that’s been running on the members list concerning our 16 anniversary party, James Gannon has spent a bunch of time looking at sites and negotiating with staff on our behalf, and then there’s been a lot of coordination over the details of what we can afford, different configurations of refreshments, speakers, invitations, and all the rest. And what we’ve come up with as the best deal is </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">Sunday, 18 October - 19:00 to whenever</div><div class=""><b class="">NCUC Sixteenth Birthday Party</b></div><div class="">The Dean Hotel</div><div class="">33 Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Ireland<br class=""><a href="http://deanhoteldublin.ie/" class="">deanhoteldublin.ie</a> </div><div class="">Map: <a href="http://bit.ly/1WxJhQM" class="">http://bit.ly/1WxJhQM</a> <br class="">+353 (01) 607 8110</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>at this price<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Oct 1, 2015, at 2:03 PM, James Gannon <<a href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net" class="">james@cyberinvasion.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Ok aiming for 3000USD</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Room booking = 485 (Already invoiced)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">35 Food @ 14.95 = 523.25</div><div class="">150 Beers at 5.50 = 825</div><div class="">30 wine @28 = 840</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For a total of 2673 EUR and 2980 USD at todays exchange rate so call it 3000.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">which, while a little more than I’d hoped (Dublin’s expensive), is still well less than we spend to bring people to a given meeting, and after all we only turn sweet 16 once and have never done this before. So I’m comfortable with a $3,000 budget (as is PIR, our main benefactor) and after the food and drink we get for that is gone people can pay out of pocket.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Milton has made the downpayment and will handle paying off the remainder of the contract, so we just need to authorize his reimbursement. We can do this in Dublin when we meet on Saturday afternoon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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